Facilities

As part of its mission The Ohio State University’s Institute for Materials Research coordinates and strengthens the activities of major campus materials-related instrumentation centers, laboratories, and facilities.

Below is a partial list of major OSU materials-related instrumentation centers, facilities, and laboratories affiliated with the IMR.  Using these facilities are multiple major research centers and groups, as well as smaller groups and individual faculty members.  Other departmental facilities are listed on the website linked below.

• The Campus Chemical Instrument Center (CCIC) provides state-of-the-art research facilities for the entire campus in 3 areas: nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry and proteomics.
• The Campus Electron Optics Facility (CEOF), based in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, operates world-class electron and ion microscopes and supporting equipment. The most recent addition is the 300 keV FEI Titan®, the highest-resolution commercially available transmission electron microscope in the world.
• Based in the College of Medicine, the Campus Microscopy Instrumentation Facility (CMIF) houses a range of instruments including cryogenic TEM, SEM, confocal optical microscopy, and others.
• The Center for Electronic/Magnetic Nanoscale Composite Multifunctional Materials (ENCOMM) is located primarily in the Department of Physics but includes the direct involvement of faculty from numerous Colleges and Departments. It has a particular strength in magnetic materials and device structures.
• World-class surface and interface analytical facilities are housed within the Electronic Materials and Nanostructures Lab (EMNL) based in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, including SIMS, and both UHV electron and photon based luminescence systems.
• The Microscopic and chemical Analysis Research Center (MARC) in the School of Earth Sciences operates secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS), scanning electron microscopy, and mass spectroscopy instruments.
• The NanoMPC Laboratory, located in the Department of Electrical Engineering, encompasses class 1000 cleanroom space that is the home for the Ohio Nanoscale Patterning Center, which includes OSU’s new Leica / Vistec EBPG-5000 electron beam lithography tool; the NanoMPC cleanroom facility, and shares space with the Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Lab, resulting in a unique vertically integrated “atoms-to-devices” capability in a single facility.
• On West Campus at Kinnear Road, the Nanotech West Laboratory, formerly the Ohio MicroMD Laboratory, encompasses 6,000 square feet of class 100 cleanroom space and over 5,000 square feet of other laboratory space including a Biohybrid Laboratory.
• The Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL), located in the Department of Electrical Engineering, houses state-of-the-art epitaxy capabilities with an interlocked UHV cluster of multiple MBE and analytical (XPS, AES, CL) chambers that support III-V, IV-IV, and spintronic epitaxy.  Extensive ex-situ characterization of materials and devices is available, including high resolution triple axis XRD, Hall effect with QMSA, deep level spectroscopies, and other methods.

NOTE: This page is in development.  Coming soon will be more comprehensive information listing, in detail, major OSU capabilities, contact information, and usage information (rates, staffing, OSU and non-OSU access, etc.).

Listing of other campus materials research laboratories and facilities.